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Originally Posted by LeatherTrumpet

its not about punishment its for the families of the victims, and to save money

I can get on board with the concept of execution for the worst criminals where there is no hope of redemption tbf, but it's purely from a practical standpoint: to save on the pointless exercise of keeping them locked up, and to remove the chance (no matter how tiny it is) of escape and victimizing more people. Also only when it's 100% certain that they are a guilty, red-handed mass murderer.

But I stand by the point that it's not a punishment of any kind. The dead are not suffering. An executed criminal isn't bothered that he has been executed. He isn't anything about anything.